Up North: A City Doc's Cure for the 9 to 5: A Hunter's Paradise! The Camp Grows

The Creek

This creek wraps itself around the 38 acres of lower camp and defines the border. Acres of hills, lowlands, a bluff, and a meadow. Up from the creek a bit the camp continues with 20 acres of high ridge leading to over 100 acres of deep pine forest, brooks, and marsh.All of it lies in the middle of a 1200 acre woods. Walk north and you're in 6 million Adirondack acres. Bring a camera, you might just see moose, bear, coyote or deer here. Cross the creek and you're in my mini-camp, with guest cabin and road access.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

A Hunter's Paradise! The Camp Grows

An old logging road crosses the corner of the parcel

As two adjacent parcels became available, I bought them both, turning the 38 original acres to 171. At the heart of the new land is a 100 acre section completely isolated from roads or any building. The land ranges from low ridgelines to two babbling brooks that converge on a marshy area. Plan is to hunt the land and possible put a bunkhouse on it. Long range, I may dig out an acre or two in the lowlands and divert the brook, creating a large pond that I will stock with lake trout. For now, it's just for enjoyment on ATV, lumbering, hunting, and the like. Perhaps I'll buy a tractor and backhoe to help in clearing a path in and out and to maintain the camp's roads.